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Happiness Quotes by George Eliot
- It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the…
- A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to…
- Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
- Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
- The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own…
- In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
- Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
More Happiness Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- Friendship is essentially a partnership. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach